{"id":81167,"date":"2023-06-19T08:08:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T15:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=81167"},"modified":"2024-06-19T09:29:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T16:29:53","slug":"gallery-junkyard-joyride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/gallery-junkyard-joyride\/","title":{"rendered":"[Gallery] Junkyard Joyride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-81167-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/DSCN3207-e1630552051847.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;81168&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;[Gallery] Junkyard Joyride&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Click Here to Begin Slideshow\\n\\nAt one time back in the early \\u201880s, we were sitting around the office of a collector car magazine wondering how long junkyards would last in the future. The \\u201cgreen\\u201d movement was already in progress and junkyards, as we knew them as young car enthusiasts, were changing and \\u201ccleaning up their acts.\\u201d\\n\\nWe started dreaming about how the day would come when there were no junkyards, and we joked that someone would start an amusement park with a junkyard theme. Car lovers would pay admission and get to walk around a park loaded with derelict cars. There would be a barking junkyard dog and a \\u201cjunkman\\u201d buy the gate that you\\u2019d have to make believe you were negotiating with to buy a part. If you negotiated well, a bulb would light and you\\u2019d win a prize\\u2014maybe a hubcap or something.\\n\\nWe even sketched a drawing of the place. It was filled with rusty old cars that most people never heard of like La Salles, Oaklands and Hupmobiles (even my spell checker burped at that last one)! There would be a fence decorated with dozens of \\u201cNo Trespassing\\u201d signs and maybe even a crusher that you put a quarter in and scrunched a fender or a hood. The more ideas we thought up, the more we laughed about our junkyard amusement park idea. We figured it would give future generations a taste of the \\u201cjoys of junkyarding.\\u201d We even coined a name for it \\u0026#8212; \\u201cJunkyard Joyride.\\u201d\\n\\nBelieve it or not, a version of our fantasy has now come to life at the Motorama Auto Museum Ltd. in Aniwa, Wis. (www.motoramaautomuseum.com\\u00a0or\\u00a0www.alfaheaven.com). The museum has lots of nice cars and motorcycles on indoor display, including a rare Alfa Romeo Disco Volante dream machine. The junkyard or \\u201cBoneyard\\u201d section is outdoors, near a recreation of a Chevrolet Corvair dealership.\\n\\nThe Boneyard is loaded with all kinds of cars nestled into a wooded area with a clearly marked path winding through it. There are models such as an AMC Marlin, a Rambler Cross-Country station wagon and a Nash Metropolitan. International travelers that became permanent residents include a German-made Goliath and a Fiat van. There\\u2019s also Buicks from the \\u201830s and \\u201840s, a Plymouth Valiant from the early \\u201860s and a Nash Metropolitan.\\n\\nThe nice thing about this junkyard is that you can walk around as long as you like or at least until you get hungry, thirsty or tired. 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